Im looking for ideas on making some of my colonies of zoas pure. I have a small 9-10 polyp frag of beautiful blue with purple centers but is becoming overrun with green palys that will eventually choke them out. Ive tryed joes juice on em and triming them out but they grow right back. Ideas?
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- Thread starter BradL.
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reefnetworth
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triming only makes them stronger and hardier. (multiply) the best solution is to remove the rock where they are attached. chizle or a Dremel tool with abrasive cut-off or carbide tip. the carbide is very brittle, plenty of water and cut slow. (it can shatter) use saftey glasses. REEF-ON!!!
reefnetworth
Premium Member
hey Brad! i just thought of this! never heard of it or tryed it. a wood burning tool or a soldering iron. i dont know what effects it would have, sugest trying on smal place. let us know if that works. REEF-ON!!!
surfnvb7
Premium Member
i wouldnt use it, b/c for one, when you apply that heat to the zoas, they will *pop* zoa juice all over the place, most likely in your eye.
second, the radiant heat coming off the tip will most likely kill everything within an inch of it anyways.
just get out a sharp knife, cut the ones off that you dont want. you can either cut the rock off, or slice under the zoas to peal them off. you just gota have a sharp enough knife and some practice
MinibowMatt
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I think the heat idea is no good either, but if you could rig up a cauterizing tool with some wire and a 12V power source, you may have something....
I have always cut them away and scraped every bit of the mat off the rock. if you do this as soon as you see new buds, eventually they will die and not come back..
I have always cut them away and scraped every bit of the mat off the rock. if you do this as soon as you see new buds, eventually they will die and not come back..
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